3 Upgrade preparations
Organizations need to plan to transition from the old dosage forms list to adopt Standard terms list provided by EDQM, according to the ICH User Guide: Use of EDQM terminologies for Dose Forms and Routes of Administration for Individual Case Safety Reports in E2B(R3) message July 2020 version 1.1.
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- General preparations
ICH recommends providing the following data to represent EDQM terminology for Dose Form and Route of Administration. - Pre-upgrade preparations
To ensure that the desired RoA and Formulations are available for case processing, organizations need to prepare with the following activities. - Post-upgrade
After upgrade, take the following steps to ensure that the terms for the Routes of Administration and Formulation codelist are correct. - Periodic upgrade of EDQM Standard Term list
Organizations need to update the safety systems regularly to get revised terms published by EDQM.